Sending Children to School in Remote Villages

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Summary

Provide an education to the first generation of children in remote areas of Nepal. These disadvantaged children would remain illiterate, and continue their life of poverty without any hope of change. progress reportread updates from the field

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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $4,000 was raised for this project.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Two-thirds of Nepal's population is illiterate; only 22% of the girls are literate. Schools in villages are grim with a high dropout rate. Schools don’t have sufficient teachers; the ones they have are poorly trained, and schools lack educational materials. School-aged children migrate to urban areas to work as domestic servants or laborers. NYOF provides scholarships to students because of poverty, to female students, to those from a low caste community, and those who are physically disabled.

Activities

NYOF is changing the future. NYOF improves and builds schools, trains the teachers, provides education materials, and pays the scholarships for children who would otherwise not have the ability to attend school. NYOF caters to the most disadvantaged.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $4,000

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $4,000.  The original project funding goal was $4,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Help eliminate poverty; an education is especially important to woman. Once educated women practice birth control, take better care of their families, and educate their children. Only hope for Nepali children who would otherwise remain illiterate.

Project Message

Education is the only real ticket out of poverty for Nepali children.
- Olga Murray, NYOF Board President and Founder

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Janis Olson,
Executive Director
3030 Bridgeway, Suite 123
Sausalito, CA 94965
United States
415.331.8585
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Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF)
3030 Bridgeway, Suite 123
Sausalito, California 94965
United States
(415) 331-8585
http://www.nyof.org

Learn more about Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF) and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Nepal and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Nepal, read the Human Development Report on Nepal or the Wikipedia entry for Nepal.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on June 08, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 05, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Update-- Village Scholarship Program

By Olga Murray - NYOF Foundation, June 08, 2007 03:11 PM

At present, there are 274 children who live in seven different districts in this program. The scholarship recipients are the children of impoverished and marginalized families. Forty of them are the children of parents with HIV/AIDS. None of them would have been able to attend school without NYOF’s help.

Twenty-one graduates took the college entrance examination and sixteen passed – far higher pass rate than the national average.
All of them have gone on to college at expense.

This program has done a tremendous amount of good since its inception in 1997 by educating children who would not have had the opportunity to go to school. Here is what one student, Min Bahadur Pariyar, who has been under scholarship for several years, wrote:

“I would like to express my gratitude towards NYOF (NYOF’s counterpart that implements the program). My father admitted me in grade 1 in Newarpani Primary School. I completed my primary level from there. I performed very well in my primary classes. In final examination of grade one, I got sixth position in class. Later in final examinations of grade 2, 3 and 4, I stood class first. Then my teachers recommended me for this scholarship because of my performance and my poverty. Now I have been studying in Bhairavi School in grade 9.


“Everybody in my village knows that my family is very poor. Actually it was like a dream for me to continue my study till this grade. Its because of the scholarship, I have been able to study now in grade 9.The support you are giving me could be very less in your judgment, but it is a very significant contribution for my life. My life is taking a bright turn because of your support. I know that in Nepal lots of children are out of school even in their school going age. Because of poverty children are even forced to work for livelihood. So, my request is that NYOF should support such children who are poor, dalits and marginalized. Actually supporting children for education is a holy thing. NYOF is more than a god to hundreds of such children to whom it is supporting. The children whom NYOF is supporting will do some good for their country and its people. And I also feel obliged to share that responsibility.

“These days with NYOF's scholarship my family is not facing any problem for my study. I don’t have problems to buy stationeries and books. I am happy that I am wearing good dress provided by NYOF. So, thank you very much.”

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